Some teachers in the North Coast Arts Integration Project are starting the first day of school with art. Ms. Brakeman at Lafayette School had her students learn about oil pastels with a self-portrait project. Teaching close observation, new art skills, a growth mindset and building relationships is a great way to start the year.
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Teachers from all over the county gathered at Humboldt County Office of Education for four days of arts integration training. Each day focused on either music, theater, media arts or visual arts with dance included every day. We are happy to see these teachers heading off to the 2017-18 school year with new tools and projects to include the arts in their classrooms.
We have an exciting four days of arts integration activities in music, dance, theater, media and visual arts planned for August 14-17. Where: Humboldt County Office of Education Annex (across parking lot from HERC) Dates: August 14-17, 2017 Day begins: 8:30 for coffee, tea, registration. Please check in no later than 8:55 AM. Day ends: 4:00 daily Dress: comfortable, movement exercises daily The photo below shows just one thing we're excited about! Participants, please bring:
Units: Participating teachers are eligible for units from HSU after completion of the NCAIP activities throughout the year. More information on this will be available during our monthly meetings next year or during the summer institute. Collaboration, Creativity, Culture, & Community
By Mimi Dojka I have worked as an arts educator throughout rural Northern California for many years, in pre-K through post-secondary settings. An essential aspect of this effort has involved collaboration, which I continue to practice in my work with the Turnaround Arts: California Regional Coach Pilot Program (RCPP) and the North Coast Arts Integration Project (NCAIP). See the whole post here. Under the guidance of Hoopa Elementary School's teacher, Stephanie Silvia, two eighth grade girls took their compelling history day project to state. Their presentation featured strong native women from several local and national tribes who play important roles in preserving American Indian culture. NCAIP contracted with Mahalo Video to video the project to showcase this work and preserve it for educational purposes. The finished video is available here. 5th graders at Alice Birney are working on a play set during the time our nation was formed. Students are taking on the perspectives of historical figures by playing their parts. Mrs. Fuentes is providing feedback to her students on their acting, speaking and listening.
Alice Birney second graders and their teachers, Mr. Moor, Ms. Swingseth, and Mrs. Rose, worked on a collaborative art project for the May 12 Multicultural Fair. Students studied the history and culture of quilt making. They looked at shape and pattern then created their own quilt squares. Notice that no two squares are the same. When put together, they create something wonderful just as we are all individual people contributing to our community.
Lead Artist Mimi Dojka led teachers in a discussion of color theory and an exploration of color and pattern. Teaching Artist Patty Yancey taught movement and dance for primary teachers. The culminating performance was a choreographed piece depicting redwood forest ecology.
Students in Mrs. Crandell's class at Zane Middle School are studying microbes, or "germs". They used found poetry to emphasize important details about the microbes they researched. Having learned about the elements and principles of art, students applied line, shape and pattern to both an illustration and an embossed image of their microbe. Students also explored negative and positive space in their bas relief artworks. The final compositions show beautiful "imprinted" learning.
The long process of designing and building the masks for the theater production about the Middle Ages is coming to an end. With the guidance of Roy and Analisa of Amazing Vox, students learned concepts of stage make up and applied dramatic highlights and shadows to the mask painting. Elastic straps will be installed this week and the masks will be used on stage next week.
Mrs. Ferguson's students at Lafayette School created colorful landscapes with oil pastels using the art techniques of overlap and diminishing size to create depth.
Fifth grade students at Lafayette School are researching states. They are showing what they know about each state by designing a "Big Letter Postcard" for the state. Students are learning how to mix watercolors, create one point perspective letters and demonstrating what they have learned about their state in a visual manner. ![]() Lafayette students in Ms. Brakeman's class learned about concepts of depth and applied them to their illustrations of their stories. ![]() This student showed the foreground, middleground and background in her work. She placed her people in different vertical positions too. Notice the overlapping hills and the bunnies getting smaller as they get farther away. These houses are clearly in the foreground and overlap the mountains and hills in the backgroud. ![]() The dinosaur skeleton is drawn toward the bottom of the page and overlaps the background creating depth. After working out the kinks in the prototypes for the theater half-masks, students are now beginning the drawing and sculpting phase.
Tina West and Becky Cape, 3rd grade teachers at Hoopa Elementary School, embraced the constructive and creative chaos of the maker activity called The Cardboard Challenge. Students designed and created their own arcade games from recycled materials.
Before students see the Chinese Acrobats at HSU's Van Duzer Theater, they are engaging in their own theatre arts challenge. Juggling provides a series of sequential problems that require the student to calm down, pay attention, listen analytically, observe critically, focus on one activity at a time, plan a learning strategy, go step-by-step, stay on task, screen out distractions, and manage their muscles to act appropriately. They will persevere through a series of minor failures (drops), analyze final results of the process, and incorporate the newly learned activities into a larger pattern of complex learned activities that can be demonstrated and taught to others. It is a limitless, cumulative, branching model which teaches creative problem solving through direct experience and enhances creativity by offering intrinsic and extrinsic reinforcement with every gain in skill! Attendance was high at Washington Elementary School's Math Night. NCAIP designed the math exploration you see pictured in these photos. Students used the regular hexagons to tessellate the surface while also exploring color, textures and values. Some students used scissors to deconstruct the hexagons into equilateral triangles, trapezoids and rhombi.
Students in Mrs. Crandell's science class learn from naturalist Ashley Naturalists from the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge visited many ECS classrooms today to teach students about waterfowl, habitats and the Federal Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Program. This program raises funds for habitat conservation and thousands of students participate across the country every year. Using scientific and wildlife observation principles, the program helps students visually communicate what they have learned by creating an entry for their state's JDS art contest. Judges select 25 winners from each of the four grade groups for prizes and one "Best of Show" winner who is entered in a national art competition. The winning national art entry is made into a conservation stamp. In 2016, Stacy Shen, age 16 from Fremont, won nationals and her art was made in the $5 conservation stamp. The 2016 winning painting of Ross's Geese by Stacy Shen The program provides an opportunity for students to express artistically their knowledge of the diversity, interdependence, and beauty of wildlife. For more information, visit this site.
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